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Article: Cisalpino to expand services.(World Report)
- Article from:
- International Railway Journal
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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TRENITALIA and Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) trove decided to increase their financial participation in Cisalpino, their joint subsidiary which operates passenger services on two routes (Florence-Zurich-Basle/Stuttgart and Venice-Geneva) using a fleet of nine multi-system Pendolino trains (right). As a result, Cisalpino will purchase 14 more Pendolino trains from Alstom at a cost of more than 300 million [euro].
"The trains will enter ...